Islamic militants are the prime suspects, and the fate of the remaining abducted sailors remains unclear.

The government has conducted random inspections regarding software copyrights at half a thousand companies in the last ten years. Counterfeit software used by enterprises is still rampant and puts them at high risk of cyber crime during this time of global integration.

Three Vietnamese from a poor rural area in the northern central province of Ha Tinh left their homeland in 2011 to work for Taiwanese fishing ships in the hope of a better future, but disaster struck when they were abducted by Somali pirates.